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Moodle’s building blocks for eAssessment tools
The document discusses Moodle's building blocks for eAssessment tools. It describes various question behaviors, types, and display options that can be combined to create many different assessment activities. Specifically, it outlines interactive question behaviors with multiple tries and feedback options, as well as question types involving entering text, numbers, selections, and positioning of objects. The goal is to have a flexible system where these various blocks can be assembled to build a wide range of assessments, beyond just traditional quizzes.
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- 1. Moodle’s building blocksfor eAssessment tools Tim Hunt, Leading Technical Developer, The Open University http://www.flickr.com/photos/13403905@N03/2080281038/
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- 3. Question behaviours • Howthe student interacts with the question • For example 1. Student give a response and clicks ‘Check’ 2. They immediately get told if they were right, with feedback. 3. If they were wrong, the can click ‘Try again’ 4. If they get it right on a later try, they get less marks 5. After 3 incorrect tries, they are just told the answer • Some parts of this are configurable.
- 4. Question behaviours (todate) • Interactive with multiple tries – as on last slide • Deferred feedback • Immediate feedback • Deferred feedback with CMB • Immediate feedback with CBM • Adaptive mode • Adaptive mode (no penalties) • Manually graded
- 5. Question types • Icould describe the behaviour without saying anything about what the question was • Question types say what the question is – what is shown – how the student responds – how it is graded – how the feedback is generated • They let the teacher specify all that, within a template, using web forms
- 6. Question types (todate) • All question types are a combination 4 basic interactions – entering words – entering numbers and mathematical expressions – selection – positioning things – points, molecules, parts of a diagram • Moodle now has question types for each of these individually • … but what about combinations of them?
- 7. Question display options •Does the teacher want feedback or marks visible during the attempt, or only later? • It matters, so the needs to be a way to specify • Even if feedback is visible, it may not be available yet – e.g. until a student has submitted an answer
- 8. Putting it together •In principle, any question can use with any behaviour • In practice, it is not that simple – e.g. essays can only be manually graded • Still, a flexible set of components that can be assembled to build many activities. • So, why do we still only have the quiz?
- 9. To put ittogether each block must know when to take control and when to give it up http://www.flickr.com/photos/rich_lem/350486730/
- 10. Useful links Developer documentationhttp://docs.moodle.org/dev/Question_API User documentation http://docs.moodle.org/23/en/Quiz_module Downloadable plugins http://moodle.org/plugins/browse.php?list=category&id=28 Overview